so obviously this game is literally impossible to play in its entirety in its original form nowadays so i just wanted to write a little smth on this one based on videos and other shit ive researched.
its interesting how much effort was put into this story and its essentially the precursor to crisis core and remake on the basis of the innerworkings of shinra. i think the best part of the compilation is how they handled this, invoking the feelings and thoughts of people who work in shinra aka the turks (this game) and SOLDIER (crisis core). they even somehow connected dirge to this shit seeing how azul was originally captured and whatever. you can see the obvious anti-governmental overtones of "SHINRA BAD" continued from the first game but they delve deeper into how the employees pay this no mind. yeah we got our hoe SHOTGUN and our bro ZACK GONGAGA to reflect on what they're really doing as shinra but most of everyone else just does whatever they're told. turks just want the moners and soldiers just wanna fuck up some bad dudes. im getting a bit off track here which i'll save for my crisis core review but you get my point.
anyways BEFORE CRISIS: FFVII is like twewy but not really with the art having the bombastic and sharp thickass nomura mid 2000s style. the combat and sprites and shit look kind twewyish but idk how it actually plays cuz youtube lol. the art is really fuckin good INCLUDING the soundtrack done by the THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU composer. legendary TAKEHARU ISHIMOTO does some really fuckin amazing guitar and drumbeats here that you can defo tell are the precursor to twewy. the vocalist on one of the songs is the same lol. hell one of the songs flat out sounds like it could be in twewy.
to put things into perspective you're basically the turkish turkey turk bitches and you go on an adventure doing shinra mission shit. its p stylized and intriguing as ive said with seeing INSIDE SHIN-RA. turks gonna be turks. you got some cool writting from what i've seen with natural character interactions (TWEWY lol.). you go through junon and kalm and shit and its like wow i remember those places now they are on my panasonic foldable 6000 flip phone phone or something idk. this game is real cool for being a simple flip phone game and i hope we can get an actual rom of it someday (the remake is very cool from what i've seen tho so getting a rom of the og probably isnt that important nowadays). okay what the fuck is with the turk names the man with a knife is literally called KNIFE what is this shit. nomura gave up on these turkey ocs i swear. also yes this "review" is very ramble-y and somewhat incoherent im aware, just wanted to share my thoughts on this game since no one else really has on the site.

Reviewed on Feb 07, 2022


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2 years ago

THE TURKSTERS